I never got comfortable with Lightroom. I’ve used Photoshop for rendering since I first started digitizing work. Somewhere along the line I adapted Adobe Bridge as my file system. I have Lightroom cloud and classic since I subscribe to the Adobe photo package but I never got comfortable with it. Photoshop has too many tools that i like to give it up. (The Raw filter is a godsend.) i suspect the equivalent may be available in Lightroom, but I’m not motivated to fin out! Paul
> On Dec 28, 2025, at 6:01 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > I went through a period of looking for alternatives to Lightroom, as I used > to do periodically just to keep abreast of what's out there, about two years > ago. I tried ON1 PhotoRAW, Affinity Photo, and probably half a dozen other > image processing/management apps. All of them failed my testing for one > reason or another. > > I continue to use Lightroom Classic (since 2004, and since LR Classic was > introduced as separate from Lightroom) and have had few to no issues with it. > I've moved my catalogs and image file repositories through at least seven > Apple macOS systems and from one drive to another as I scaled up for more > space; it's now running on a 2024 Mac mini with latest macOS. And I've had no > problems at all. The annual cost for Lightroom Classic plus upgrades is > pretty much the same as what I'd be paying for any other app and its updates, > so I see no big win there. > > As much as I nearly hate to admit it, LR Classic simply does what I want as > well or better than anything else I've tried. And I'd rather just do my > photography than fuss around with trying out, learning, and adapting all my > workflows to other applications. My current LR Classic setup (two main > catalogs, several more specialized use catalogs) has over 350,000 image files > in it. 63,000 files is practically nothing for this software ... Two of the > clients I had in my working days when I offered services for photography had > upwards of 800,000 files in their catalogs. > > The larger question, to me, is why Rick is having these problems with LR > periodically. That suggests some instability or configuration issue, either > hardware or software, with whatever system he's using. I'd investigate that > if I lived on the east coast and went to help him relocate his image files. > > Godfrey > — > "A bigger hammer has a limit." - Walt Brown, NASA/JPL manager > > > >> On Dec 28, 2025, at 2:35 PM, Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I agree with Ralph. I've been using ON1 PhotoRAW since its inception. Even >> if you upgrade to the newest version every year the cost isn't exhorbitent. >> If you take some time to smoke out the coupons available it's even better. >> Give it a try... > >> On Dec 28, 2025, at 1:49 PM, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Am 28.12.25 um 22:25 schrieb Rick Womer: >>> Which non-Adobe photo editors should I look at? >> >> You might try ON1 Photo RAW. The 30 day test version has no restrictions >> whatsoever. >> >> I've changed from LR to ON1, years ago when LR went ransomware. Looking >> back, I'm quite happy with it but the savings are rather small. One keeps >> buying the yearly new versions because of the new features, so lastly the >> cost is only marginally lower. >> > >> On Dec 28, 2025, at 2:31 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't know where she is, but perhaps you mean Victoria Bampton? >> >> https://www.lightroomqueen.com/ >> >> I've been low key wanting to ditch lightroom for about 10 years now. I >> tried ON1 a while back, primarily because it claimed that it could transfer >> lightroom catalogs. Unfortunately, that didn't work so well, and there were >> too many features I used that worked so much better in LR. >> >> Ever since I started using LR, I have been storing my photos in a directory >> tree that didn't rely on the LR data base to find things, so that when I do >> change, I'll be able to find things. I know that when I do change, it's >> going to be a hellish process. >> >>>> On Dec 28, 2025, at 1:25 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I am running LR Classic 15.1 on a Mac, with an up-to-date OS. >>> >>> For no apparent reason, LR has again ost track of about 10,000 of my 63,000 >>> photos. This first happened a couple of years ago. After a few weeks of >>> struggle, I contacted a Lightroom expert that my wife somehow smoked out. >>> Neither of us can find her contact information, though. >>> >>> Does anyone know of such a person? She lived on Long Island. >>> >>> Which non-Adobe photo editors should I look at? >>> >>> Rick > > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
